Example sentences of "[verb] be next " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her ! ’ |
| 2 | As might be expected women who left school at the minimum age had the largest families , but the best educated were next in line . |
| 3 | Well , well what I 'll do is next week I 'll |
| 4 | We well what I think I 'm gon na do is next Thur not this Thursday , we 'll just have to live through this Thursday , but next Thursday , erm I 'm gon na get get Stella back on , and I 'm just gon na sell it as cost , whatever it is , sixty P a pint or whatever . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have expected more ; Particularly on the shift , which would have been next to the wound . ’ |
| 6 | The final round of judging is next month . |
| 7 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
| 8 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 9 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 10 | So — ’ he pointed to the case , saying , ‘ I 've been next door and bought another dozen . ’ |
| 11 | They 've been next to my telephone for four weeks . |
| 12 | But faded switches , pickup covers and so on have been next to impossible to find . |
| 13 | Pat smiled and replied , though she indicated by her manner that there was no reason why she should , " I have been next door twice . |
| 14 | Attacking what he said was the limited usefulness of the measures , he said : ‘ The situation is so desperate that anything seems better than nothing , even when what the Government is proposing is next to nothing . ’ |
| 15 | BBont are very interested in it , because there is natural fauna and flora there and the other thing that I think needs to be brought up is the site they are proposing is next door to a leisure park . |
| 16 | Who did I say was next week ? |